{"id":1416,"date":"2006-08-15T10:12:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T18:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/health_violations_abound_some_customers_undeterred.html"},"modified":"2006-08-15T10:12:04","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T18:12:04","slug":"health_violatio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/health_violatio.html","title":{"rendered":"Health Violations Abound, Some Customers Undeterred"},"content":{"rendered":"

God willing, the lines at the Shake Shack may get a lot shorter now<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Shake Shack in Madison Square Park — famed for stellar reviews and airport-length lines — has been hit by the city Heath Department with 15 violations that total an astounding 140 points, officials said.<\/p>\n

A passing grade is 27 points or less.<\/p>\n

The violations include vermin, evidence of flying insects, food-handling workers sneezing, coughing and failing to wash their hands after visiting the toilet, contamination of food and food kept too warm.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

The news left diners a bit shaky.<\/p>\n

“I don’t usually eat meat, but I decided to get a burger,” said a woman who asked not to be identified. “It’s really distressing because I know people that work for this organization, and they’re fabulous.”<\/p>\n

“This is my third time,” said Jeemin Lee, 27, a student from Atlanta. “It’s in the park, they have good prices, and they don’t use frozen meat. But if it’s dirty, then I definitely won’t come back here.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This, however, is just poking your finger in the 80% lean raw patty of fate:<\/p>\n

Some customers aren’t bothered by the fuss.<\/p>\n

“I’ll probably come back,” said frequent diner Stefanie Chinn from Manhattan. “I haven’t gotten sick yet.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Yet” . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

God willing, the lines at the Shake Shack may get a lot shorter now: The Shake Shack in Madison Square Park — famed for stellar reviews and airport-length lines — has been hit by the city Heath Department with 15 violations that total an astounding 140 points, officials said. A passing grade is 27 points […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,38,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed","category-i_dont_get_it","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}